Beth Severy-Hoven specializes in Roman history and the history of women in the
ancient Mediterranean. She has published a book on the development of Rome's first
imperial family, Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire (Routledge
2003). Her more recent work involves the wall painting in a house in Pompeii, and the
roles of women in different dynasties of the Roman empire. 

Severy-Hoven has been teaching at Macalester since 1998. 

EDUCATION: A.B., Bryn Mawr College M.St., Oxford University, England M.A., Ph.D.,
University of California, Berkeley

Journal Articles

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Master Narratives and the Wall Painting of the House of the Vettii, Pompeii, Gender and History; Special Issue Gender History Across Epistemologies (2012)
 

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Gender, Sex, and the Domestication of the Empire in Art of the Augustan Age (with Teresa Ramsby), Arethusa (2007)
 

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Reshaping Rome: Space, Time and Memory in the Augustan Transformation [Editor of Special Issue; Introduction], Arethusa (2007)
 

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PBS's Roman Empire: Once Again, History as Imperial Biography, The Chronicle Review: The Chronicle of Higher Education (2001)
 

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Family and State in the Early Imperial Monarchy: The Senatus Consultum de Pisone Patre, Tabula Siarensis, and Tabula Hebana, Classical Philology (2000)
 

Books

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Representing Agrippina: Constructions of Female Power in the Early Roman Empire [Co-editor of the book by Judith Ginsburg] (with Judith Ginsburg) (2006)
 

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Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire (2003)
 

Book Reviews

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Review of: Children in the Visual Arts of Imperial Rome, by Jeannine Diddle Uzzi, The Classical Journal (2007)
 

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Review of: Princes and Political Cultures. The New Tiberian Senatorial Decrees, by Greg Rowe, Phoenix (2004)
 

Journal Editor

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Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity and Classics [editor] (2008)